Sixteen Minister Arrested in Mass.
Compiled from Press Reports, Duane Nichols, July 10, 2016
What a day! Some 16 religious leaders arrested in West Roxbury, Boston, in a multi-faith, non-violent occupation of the Spectra Energy fracked gas pipeline construction site on Wednesday, May 25, 2016.
Participants included: Rev. Elizabeth Nguyen, Cambridge, MA; Rev. Heather Concannon, Sherborn, MA; Rev. Rebecca Froom, Quincy, MA; Rev. Martha Niebanck, Brookline, MA; Rev. John Gibbons, Bedford, MA; Rev. Fred Small, Boston, MA; Rev. Anne Bancroft, West Roxbury, MA; and Rev. Rali Weaver, Dedham, MA.
This protest against the West Roxbury Spectra Energy pipeline expansion — organized by Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman of Temple Sinai in Brookline — is one of many that have occurred since construction resumed in mid-April.
A March 14, 2016, article explains:
The West Roxbury Lateral (WRL) is part of a 1,100-mile pipeline being built by Spectra Energy of Houston, Texas, and its subsidiary, Algonquin Gas Transmission in Waltham, Massachusetts, to carry natural gas from Pennsylvania. Slightly over five miles long, the WRL will begin in the town of Westwood, run through Dedham, where it will pass near a soccer field, and continue into West Roxbury, where it will pass near an active blasting quarry. A related metering and regulating station is also being built near the quarry, according to Resist the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline, an organization fighting the WRL.
When asked why she took action and risked arrest on Wednesday, Rev. Heather Concannon responded, “I chose to participate because my faith calls me to align my actions with my beliefs– and I believe that it is immoral to be building new fossil fuel infrastructure when we know how devastating and deadly fossil fuels are for our planet and for the most vulnerable people on it. I chose to participate because there is moral power in faith-based resistance to oppressive structures, and because there is power in choosing to be a part of something greater than myself”.
See also: Appalachian Mountain Advocates
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